‘Fluoride, long added to our drinking water to improve oral health, is probably useless and even harmful to public health.

Its effectiveness is based on shaky science from the 1950s, yet big dental associations around the world keep promoting the addition of fluoride to our drinking water.

“The sad story is that very little has been done in recent years to ensure that fluoridation is still needed [or]to ensure that adverse effects do not happen,” says Dr. Philippe Grandjean, an environmental health researcher and physician at Harvard University.’

‘Blowing the pro-water-fluoridation argument out of the water, a new study by Harvard and University College London just found Brits — notoriously crooked smiles and all — actually have better dental health than people in the United States. No, seriously.

Despite a water fluoridation rate of 66%, and 74% for those who rely on a public source, Americans’ dental health simply doesn’t match up to that of their British counterparts — where only 10% of supply contains fluoride.

“Contrary to popular belief, our study showed that the oral health of U.S. citizens is not better than the English, with Americans having significantly more missing teeth,” said the study’s lead author, Dr. Richard Watt, Professor in Dental Public Health, Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health, at UCL.’

‘A new documentary exposing the ugly truth behind the phosphate fertilizer industry will soon be available on DVD. The film, titled Fluoride: Poison on Tap, features testimony from dozens of professionals who are extremely knowledgeable about the harmful effects of fluoride, including Natural News Editor Mike Adams, health and wellness expert Dr. Edward Group and preventive dentist David Kennedy.

The film dives into the filthy processes of the phosphate fertilizer industry, which provides municipalities across the U.S. with fluoride, or hydrofluorosilicic acid rather, a hazardous waste byproduct of the commercial fertilizer industry.’

‘Opponents of water fluoridation have finally earned a victory in the fight against fluoride! San Marcos, Texas, a college town located just 25 miles south of Austin, voted to stop adding the industrial toxin hydrofluorosilicic acid to the water yesterday with overwhelming support.

The votes in favor of Proposition 1 to stop adding fluoride to the public water supply came in at about 61 percent, with 39 percent opposing the measure. The victorious outcome was made possible by committed voters and the efforts of grassroots groups who worked tirelessly to get the measure onto the November 2015 ballot, despite facing many obstacles along the way.’

‘A study published in the journal Environmental Health reinforces what many people have known for a long time: Increasing levels of fluoride in drinking water is harmful to health. While its findings are disturbing, the study is good news for those who have been told time and again that fluoride is safe, as it arms them with even more evidence of the harms caused by this chemical.

Titled, “Exposure to fluoridated water and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder prevalence among children and adolescents in the United States: an ecological association,” the study noted that a “1% increase in artificial fluoridation prevalence in 1992 was associated with approximately 67,000 to 131,000 additional ADHD diagnoses from 2003 to 2011.”‘

‘When Americans are traveling abroad, travel agents often advise them not to drink the local water because it could contain toxins, bacteria or other harmful elements due to less stringent purification standards.

But now, some Americans are being advised that they shouldn’t drink water in their own country – in portions of California, particularly.

As reported by the Washington Post, tainted water is affecting California’s poor the most; arsenic has been found in groundwater that feeds a community well at St. Anthony Trailer Park, which is 40 miles south of Palm Springs. There, residents are advising their kids and others of the dangers, yet many still don’t heed the warnings and are consuming the tainted water nevertheless, including children.’

‘The Fluoride Action Network (FAN) launched a nationwide billboard and poster campaign warning parents that fluoride, served to over 270 million Americans in their tap water, and often mixed with infant formula, is classified as a chemical “with substantial evidence of developmental neurotoxicity” by the EPA.

The billboards ask, “Do you really want your child to drink a neurotoxic chemical?” and urge citizens to “stop artificial water fluoridation,” and to get more information from FAN’s science-based website FluorideACTION.net. The first billboards are in Fircrest and Tacoma, Washington, as campaigners around the country prepare to follow suit.

Fluoride chemicals are added to public water supplies in a futile attempt to reduce tooth decay. Even fluoridation promoters now admit that, if fluoride works at all, it works topically. So, there is no need to swallow it.’

‘Through footage of live events and interviews with Fluoride Free Bedford’s co-ordinator, Cynthia Bagchi, and supporters, Toxic Tap Water provides an intimate snapshot of the campaign that has been operating largely beneath the public’s gaze since 2002.

Producer and director, Anna Bragga, says:

“Toxic Tap Water goes to the heart of Bedford’s battle against water fluoridation, bringing vivid sounds and imagery of the campaign into private living rooms for the first time.

“Although a low budget film, Toxic Tap Water packs a punch due to the emotive nature of the subject and the passion and commitment of campaigners. The film leaves the viewer with a clear sense of the highly political pro-fluoridation agenda but also a sense of the possible.”’

“Fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud of this century.”
– Robert Carlton, Ph.D, former EPA scientist, 1992

Fluoride- everyone “knows” what it is, in the same sense that everyone, at the age of 4, “knew” babies were delivered by a broad-winged bird with a rapier-like beak, as in the same way people many centuries ago “knew” the Earth was flat. As the latter two comparisons are incorrect, it is safe to assume that so is the statement encompassed in the second through fifth words.

Why does anyone link fluoride to healthy teeth?
It all started in the early 20th century, in portions of the Southwest United States. The majority of the people that lived there had what most referred to as “Colorado Brown Stain”, characterized by the permanent yellow, black and brown stains, white blotches and sometimes their teeth were even falling apart. But despite all of these hideous aesthetics, they didn’t have many cavities. Dentists knew that the “Colorado Brown Stain”, now referred to as dental fluorosis, was caused by the high levels of fluoride polluting the drinking water, anywhere from 2-13ppm (parts per million). What they didn’t take into consideration was that the real reason they didn’t have many cavities was because there were other teeth-strengthening minerals in the water, as well, such as calcium and magnesium. There really haven’t been many, if any, studies proving the benefits of sodium fluoride on teeth, not even topically, let alone through ingestion, and not to mention sodium fluoride, as opposed to calcium fluoride. I could only assume, but, I would think that if there were any benefit to any type of fluoride for the teeth, it would be the calcium fluoride, and only topical. There would be no reason to ingest fluoride of any sort.

One thing many people don’t realize is that the naturally occurring fluoride is calcium fluoride, and the fluoride that we all pay to have put into our water is sodium fluoride, which is an industrial toxic waste, by-produced by the aluminum industry. This is one of the reasons the military industrial complex is pleased to have convinced everyone that we need to put it in our water, they make money hand over fist selling it to municipal water companies and dentists. Another reason they like it is because sodium fluoride lowers the population’s I.Q., found by research by Phillis Mullenix, a Harvard toxicologist; it also produced symptoms in rats mirroring attention deficit & hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). But days before her findings were accepted to be published, she was fired as the head of toxicology at the Forsyth Dental Center in Boston. And after that her grant application to continue her research of fluoride’s effect on the central nervous systems was turned down by the National Institute of Health (NIH) when their panel told her “fluoride does not have central nervous system effects” (Griffiths 1998). The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) own scientists’ union- Chapter 280 of the National Treasury Employees Union, have long taken a firm stand against fluoride. Dr. William Hirzy, vice president of Chapter 280, stated that “fluoride (that is added to municipal water) is a hazardous waste product for which there is substantial evidence of adverse health effects and, contrary to public perception, virtually no evidence of significant benefits”( Mullenix 1998). And what could the ‘leaders’ of this country enjoy more than a dumbed-down population that can’t hold it’s attention span past this week’s episode of Dancing With the Stars? Passive sheep are the easiest to herd.

Why do we use sodium fluoride instead of calcium fluoride if anything?
There is no better explanation of this than from “goers”‘ article “The Fluoride Deception” (July 29, 2005)
“The story begins in 1924, when Interessen Gemeinschaft Farben (I.G. Farben), a German chemical manufacturing company, began receiving loans from American bankers, gradually leading to the creation of the huge I.G. Farben cartel. In 1928 Henry Ford and American Standard Oil Company (The Rockefellers) merged their assets with I.G. Farben, and by the early thirties, there were more than a hundred American corporations which had subsidiaries and co-operative understandings in Germany. The I.G. Farben assets in America were controlled by a holding Company, American I.G. Farben, which listed on it’s board of directors: Edsel Ford, President of the Ford Motor Company, Chas. E. Mitchell, President of Rockerfeller’s National City Bank of New York, Walter Teagle, President of Standard Oil New York, Paul Warburg, Chairman of the federal reserve and brother of Max Warburg, financier of Germany’s War effort, Herman Metz, a director of the Bank of Manhattan, controlled by the Warburgs, and a number of other members, three of which were tried and convicted as German war criminals for their crimes against humanity. In 1939 under the Alted agreement, the American Aluminum Company (ALCOA), then the worlds largest producer of sodium fluoride, and the Dow Chemical Company transferred its technology to Germany. Colgate, Kellogg, Dupont and many other companies eventually signed cartel agreements with I.G. Farben, creating a powerful lobby group accurately dubbed “the fluoride mafia”(Stephen 1995).
At the end of World War II, the US government sent Charles Eliot Perkins, a research worker in chemistry, biochemistry, physiology and pathology, to take charge of the vast Farben chemical plants in Germany. The German chemists told Perkins of a scheme which they had devised during the war and had been adapted by the German General Staff. The German chemists explained of their attempt to control the population in any given area through the mass medication of drinking water with sodium fluoride, a tactic used in German and Russian prisoner of war camps to make the prisoners “stupid and docile”(Stephen 1995). Farben had developed plans during the war to fluoridate the occupied countries because it was found that fluoridation caused slight damage to a specific part of the brain, making it more difficult for the person affected to defend his freedom and causing the individual to become more docile towards authority. Fluoride remains one of the strongest anti-psychotic substances known, and is contained in twenty-five percent of the major tranquilizers. It may not seem surprising that Hitler’s regime practiced the concept of mind control through chemical means, but the American military continued Nazi research, exploring techniques to incapacitate an enemy or medicate an entire nation. As stated in the Rockerfeller Report, a Presidential briefing on CIA activities, “the drug program was part of a much larger CIA program to study possible means of controlling human behavior”(Stephen 1995).
The ‘dental caries prevention myth’ associated with fluoride, originated in the United States in 1939, when a scientist named Gerald J. Cox, employed by ALCOA, the largest producer of toxic fluoride waste and at the time being threatened by fluoride damage claims, fluoridated some lab rats, concluded that fluoride reduced cavities and claimed that it should be added to the nation’s water supplies. In 1947, Oscar R. Ewing, a long time ALCOA lawyer, was appointed head of the Federal Security Agency , a position that placed him in charge of the Public Health Service(PHS). Over the next three years, eighty-seven new American cities began fluoridating their water, including the control city in a water fluoridation study in Michigan, thus eliminating the most scientifically objective test of safety and benefit before it was ever completed.
American ‘education and research’ was funded by the Aluminum Manufacturing, Fertilizer and Weapons Industry looking for an outlet for the increasingly mounting fluoride industrial waste while attaining positive profit increase. The ‘discovery’ that fluoride benefited teeth, was paid for by industry that needed to be able to defend “lawsuits from workers and communities poisoned by industrial fluoride emissions” (Bryson 1995) and turn a liability into an asset. Fluoride, a waste constituent in the manufacturing processes of explosives, fertilizers and other ‘necessities’, was expensive to dispose of properly and until a ‘use’ was found for it in America’s water supplies, the substance was only considered a toxic, hazardous waste. Through sly public re-education, fluoride, once a waste product, became the active ingredient in fluorinated pesticides, fungicides, rodenticides, anesthetics, tranquilizers, fluorinated pharmaceuticals, and a number of industrial and domestic products, fluorinated dental gels, rinses and toothpastes. Fluoride is so much a part of a multibillion-dollar industrial and pharmaceutical income, that any withdrawal of support from pro-fluoridationists is financially impossible, legally unthinkable and potentially devastating for their career and reputation.
Funded by US industrialists, in an attempt to encourage public acceptance of fluoride, Edward Bernays, known also as the father of PR, or the original spin doctor, began a campaign of deception to persuade public opinion. Barnays explained “you can get practically any idea accepted if doctors are in favour. The public is willing to accept it because a doctor is an authority to most people, regardless of how much he knows or doesn’t know”(Bryson 2004). Doctors who endorsed fluoridation didn’t know that research discrediting fluoride’s safety was either suppressed or not conducted in the first place. Fluoride became equated with scientific progress and since it was introduced to the public as a health-enhancing substance, added to the environment for the children’s sake, those opposing fluoride were dismissed as cranks, quacks and lunatics. Fluoride became impervious to criticism because of a relentless PR offensive, but also because of it’s overall toxicity. Unlike chemicals that have a signature effect, fluoride, a systemic poison, produces a range of health problems, so it’s effects are more difficult to diagnose.
Recently declassified US Military documents such as Manhattan Project, shows how Fluoride is the key chemical in atomic bomb production and millions of tonnes of it were needed for the manufacture of bomb-grade uranium and plutonium. Fluoride poisoning, not radiation poisoning, emerged as the leading chemical health hazard for both workers and nearby communities. A-bomb scientists were ordered to provide evidence useful for defense in litigation, so they began secretly testing fluoride on unsuspecting hospital patients and indignant, mentally retarded children.. “The August 1948 Journal of the American Dental Association shows that evidence of adverse effects from fluoride was censored by the US Atomic Energy Commission for reasons of “national security” (Griffiths 1998). The only report released stated that fluoride was safe for humans in small doses.”[1]Isn’t there some other way for them to dispose of sodium fluoride instead of poisoning us with it?
Of course, and now that you’ve brought up “poisoning”- before sodium fluoride was used, with no evidence, for cavity prevention it was actually used as rat poison because it converted into fluoric acid upon digestion once introduced to stomach acid, inhibiting enzyme function on a massive scale, ultimately causing the rats to die of malnutrition even though they were eating plenty. Sodium fluoride cripples the function of over 100 enzymes and has been linked to 30,000-50,000 cancer deaths annually. Another way it is used is as a pesticide, usually in aerosol form called fluorine, and yes, this is used on our food. Let’s see what the EPA says about this in their report entitled “Recognition and Management of Pesticide Poisonings”, Fifth Edition, from 1999, on pages 82-85:

“FLUORIDES

Sodium fluoride is a crystalline mineral once widely used in the United States for control of larvae and crawling insects in homes, barns, warehouses, and other storage areas. It is highly toxic to all plant and animal life. The only remaining use permitted is for wood treatment Sodium fluosilicate (sodium silico fluoride) has been used to control ectoparasites on livestock, as well as crawling insects in homes and work buildings. It is approximately as toxic as sodium fluoride. All uses in the U.S. have been cancelled.

Sodium fluoaluminate (Cryolite) is a stable mineral containing fluoride. It is used as an insecticide on some vegetables and fruits. Cryolite has very low water solubility, does not yield fluoride ion on decomposition, and presents very little toxic hazard to mammals, including humans. Hydrofluoric acid is an important industrial toxicant, but is not used as a pesticide. Sulfuryl fluoride is discussed in Chapter 16, Fumigants.

Toxicology

Sodium fluoride and fluosilicate used as insecticides present a serious hazard to humans because of high inherent toxicity, and the possibility that children crawling on floors of treated dwellings will ingest the material. Absorption across the skin is probably slight, and methods of pesticide use rarely include a hazard of inhalation, but uptake of ingested fluoride by the gut is efficient and potentially lethal. Excretion is chiefly in the urine. Within the first 24 hours of intoxication, renal clearance of fluoride from the blood is rapid. However, patients go on to continue to excrete large amounts of fluoride for several days. This is thought to be due to a rapid binding of fluoride to a body store, probably bone. The subsequent release of fluoride from bone is gradual enough not to cause a recurrence of toxicity.26, 27 Large loads of absorbed fluoride may potentially poison renal tubule cells, resulting in acute renal failure. Children will have greater skeletal uptake of fluoride than adults, therefore limiting the amount the kidney needs to handle. Despite this, children are still at great risk because of their smaller body mass compared to adults in relation to the amount ingested.27

The toxic effects of fluoride in mammals are multiple, and all may threaten life. The primary effects from fluoride result from an inhibition of critical intra-cellular enzymes and the direct effect on ionized calcium in extracellular fluid. Hypocalcemia commonly occurs.26, 28,29, 30

Ingested fluoride is transformed in the stomach to hydrofluoric acid, which has a corrosive effect on the epithelial lining of the gastrointestinal tract. Thirst, abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea are usual symptoms. Hemorrhage in the gastric mucosa, ulceration, erosions, and edema are common signs.31

Absorbed fluoride ion reduces extracellular fluid concentrations of calcium and magnesium. Hypocalcemia sometimes results in tetany.30 Cardiac arrhythmia and shock are often prominent features of severe poisoning. Hypotension and severe arrhythmia, sometimes progressing to ventricular fibrillation, may also occur.26, 32 These probably result from combinations of effects of fluid and electrolyte disturbances including hyperkalemia 32 and direct actions of fluoride on heart and vascular tissues. Fluoride may directly affect the central nervous system, resulting in headache, muscle weakness, stupor, convulsions, and coma.26,27,28 Respiratory failure and ventricular arrythmias are common causes of death.26,27

Confirmation of Poisoning

A population drinking water with a concentration of 1 mg per liter will have a plasma inorganic fluoride concentration between 0.01 and 0.03 mg per liter 28 and rarely above 0.10 mg per liter. In fatal cases of poisoning, plasma levels of 3.5 mg per liter and higher have been recorded, although survival has been reported in patients with levels as high as 14 mg per liter.26,28

Treatment: Fluoride Toxicosis

1. Skin decontamination. Wash skin with soap and water as outlined in Chapter 2. Eye contamination should be removed by prolonged flushing of the eye with copious amounts of clean water or saline. If irritation persists, specialized medical treatment should be obtained.

2. Gastrointestinal decontamination. If sodium fluoride or sodium fluosilicate has been ingested, consider gastric decontamination as outlined in Chapter 2.

If the victim is obtunded or if vomiting precludes oral administration, the airway should be protected by endotracheal intubation, then the stomach should be gently intubated and lavaged with several ounces of one of the liquids named below. Activated charcoal is not likely to be of use because it does not bind the fluoride ion well.

3. Calcium and magnesium. If the victim is fully alert, and if vomiting does not totally prevent swallowing of a neutralizing agent, prompt oral administration of milk, calcium gluconate, or magnesium citrate will precipitate fluoride ion in the gut and therefore may be life-saving. The milk provides the calcium ions that will bind to fluoride, thereby reducing absorption. Magnesium-based antacids have also been used to neutralize the acid and facilitate the production of poorly absorbed salts.26 There are no data on the optimum amounts to be administered.

4. Blood analysis. A blood specimen should be drawn for serum electrolyte analysis for sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, fluoride, and bicarbonate capacity. Blood should also be drawn to type and cross match for blood transfusion.

5. Intravenous fluids (initially 5% dextrose in 0.9% saline) should be started to combat dehydration, shock, and metabolic acidosis. Fluid balance should be monitored closely to forestall fluid overload if renal failure occurs. If metabolic acidosis is detected, sodium bicarbonate should be administered to keep the urine alkaline as this may hasten excretion.27 Intravenous fluids must be stopped if anuria or oliguria (less than 25-30 mL per hour) develops.

8. Tetany. If overt or latent tetany occurs, or if hypocalcemia is demonstrated, or if it appears likely that a significant amount of fluoride has been absorbed, administer 10 mL of 10% calcium gluconate intravenously, at no more than 1 mL per minute.

Dosage of Calcium Gluconate:

Supplied as 100 mg/mL (10% solution)

• Adults and children over 12 years: 10 mL of 10% solution, given slowly, intravenously. Repeat as necessary.

9. Oxygen by mask should be administered for hypotension, shock, cardiac arrhythmia, or cyanosis. Shock may require administration of plasma or blood.

10. Acid Burns. Since these compounds can cause severe acid burns to the esophagus and stomach, patients should be referred for surgical evaluation and endoscopy. If burns are documented, treatment for acid burns should be continued by a surgeon or gastroenterologist.

Treatment: Sodium Fluoaluminate (Cryolite)

Cryolite is much less toxic than other fluorides. If a very large amount has been ingested, it may be appropriate to measure serum calcium to insure that hypocalcemia has not occurred. If so, intravenous 10% calcium gluconate would be indicated (see 8 above). It is unlikely that treatment for fluoride toxicity would be necessary following ingestion of sodium fluoaluminate.”[2]

Have I yet mentioned that there have been no tests to conclude that sodium fluoride prevents cavities in any way, though, on the contrary, there have been several studies to conclude that it increases tooth decay through fluorosis, as mentioned earlier. Very recently to this writing a 45-year-old man in San Jose, California unintentionally conducted passive research on the dangers of the same fluoride compound (sulfuryl floride [SO2F2]) that is used, with government approval, on many of the foods that we all eat. A home was being fumigated and he, for whatever reason, despite the posted warning signs about the residence, made his way into the home at night during the fumigation and was found dead the next morning by employees of the extermination company.

Is there any way to remove the fluoride from our water?

Yes, and it’s not as easy as you would think. Options include reverse osmosis filtration, activated alumina defluoridation filters, and distillation filtration. In my opinion, if water companies are deliberately adding fluoride into the drinking water I think, short of stopping of course, that they should pay for customers’ removal costs.
References:
I’ve fumbled through many pages and documents online, not all of these links provided information utilized, but they are additional resources if so needed by anyone else wanting to research this issue.
[1] http://ekoscommunications.com/node/125?PHPSESSID=f6bb75e02d7f26ec6ce70c8f1da86f1b
[2] http://www.epa.gov/oppfead1/safety/healthcare/handbook/handbook.htm
http://www.diet-and-exercise-for-health.com/fluoride-toothpaste.html
http://drjaygordon.com/pediatricks/general/fluoride.html
http://chemistry.about.com/od/chemistryhowtoguide/a/removefluoride.htm
http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/where-the-yellow-went.html
http://keepers-of-the-well.org/on_point.html
http://www.fluoridealert.org/
http://douglassreport.com/?s=fluoride
http://www.pure-earth.com/fluoride-water-filters.htm
http://chemistry.about.com/od/chemistryhowtoguide/a/removefluoride.htm
http://www.thenaturalguide.com/pure-water.htm
http://www.prisonplanet.com/man-dies-after-house-fumigated-with-same-fluoride-compound-sprayed-on-food.html
http://purewaterfreedom.com/osc/
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http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978651564
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